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On the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Joseph P. McDonald manned the switchboard at Fort Shafter in Hawaii when he received the alarming message that radar had detected a large number of planes approaching from the north, heading fast for Oahu.
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Motorists who use the Pango mobile app to pay at parking meters in Scranton will get reimbursed for any inadvertent overcharges since Sept. 1, the new operator of the city’s parking system said.
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The same state agency also last week awarded the township $141,200 to help pay off debt for acquiring the park much more quickly than would have otherwise been possible.

Supervisors are also planning to use a $120,000 grant from local shares of gaming money to build a road into the park, a project that will likely start "as soon as the (winter) weather breaks."

At that point, Mr. Patterson said the public would be able to access the largely undeveloped space. He said there are some existing hiking trails there.

Mr. Patterson hopes to soon develop a wish list for the park with other township officials as part of the site plan process, although he said the ideas would likely take a decade or longer to come together.

One of his top priorities is creating a multipurpose field that could be used for sports like soccer and football or community events like festivals and car shows.

"I'd love to see a full (disabled) accessible playground facility and a couple of ball fields," Mr. Patterson said.

Other longer-term ideas he mentioned included building tennis courts, basketball courts and a multipurpose building that runs on renewable energy.

Contact the writer: kwind@timesshamrock.com, @kwindTT on Twitter

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